orcades

Orient Line Built 1948 by Vickers Armstrong 28,396 Gross Tons, 216 metres x 28.5 metres beam IMO 5264247

Last seen in Oban (http://www.shipsnostalgia.com/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/738026/title/orcades/cat/508 ), presently berthed for the winter at Corpach.

Back in Oban after a 3-year absence: http://www.shipsnostalgia.com/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/341514/title/orcades/cat/508 and not to be confused with a Orient Line vessel of the same name.

P&O Lines Approaching the quayside at Southampton at the conclusion of a cruise in September 1972

Scanned from an Ogden's cigarette card

Interesting old shot of her at Belfast where she went to have air conditioning installed I believe.

Orient Line's ORCADES coming up to the Orient berth in Tilbury c. 1938. She is assisted forward by the tugs CONTEST and GONDIA.... and BEAM astern. On the P&O berth, the COMORIN wearing her new livery. Oil on panel, 24 x 36 inches. Signed and dated 2012.

Orcades at Acapulco 1963

Plockton registered private motor cruiser Orcades leaving Oban.

Private motor cruiser Orcades leaving Oban. Research on SN suggests she was built in Malahide, Ireland in the 1960s.

Model ay the NMM in Sydney.

Resplendent in her original corn colour hull

Arriving at Southampton from a cruise in the 1970's

Arriving at Southampton from a cruise in the 1970's

Catching the early morning sun ORCADES looks magnificent arriving at Southampton

Orcades and other vessels docked at Pyrmont, Sydney NSW pre 1966

ORCADES at San Francisco late 1950's From an original slide with full copyright.

At Dubrovnik, 1959.